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| Main Entry: | avant-garde |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconventional, forward-looking |
| Synonyms: | beat*, experimental, head*, hip*, innovative, lead, liberal, new, new wave, progressive, radical, state-of-the-art, vanguard, leading-edge, pioneering |
| Antonyms: | conservative, conventional |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cutting edge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leading position |
| Synonyms: | advancement, avant-garde, fore, forefront, front, innovation, invention, leading edge, new wave, pioneer, point, spearhead, van, vanguard, advance guard, front line, newest technology |
| Main Entry: | forefront/foreground |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prominence |
| Synonyms: | beginning, center, focus, fore, front, lead, limelight*, spearhead*, state-of-the-art, vanguard, cutting-edge, forepart, leading-edge, on the line |
| Antonyms: | back, background, rear, unimportance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | innovator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inventor |
| Synonyms: | avant-garde, creator, pioneer, trendsetter, vanguard, discoverer, groundbreaker, prequel, trailblazer |
| Main Entry: | scout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is searching, investigating |
| Synonyms: | advance, adventurer, detective, escort, explorer, guard, lookout, outpost, patrol, picket, pioneer, precursor, runner, sleuth, spy, vanguard, outrider, reconnoiterer, recruiter, spotter |
| Antonyms: | target |
| Main Entry: | forefront |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prominence |
| Synonyms: | beginning, center, cutting edge, focus, fore, front, lead, leading edge, limelight, spearhead, vanguard, foreground, forepart |
| Antonyms: | background |
| Main Entry: | leading edge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forward edge |
| Synonyms: | cutting edge, forefront, front, point, state-of-the-art, van, vanguard, front edge |
| Main Entry: | front |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forward, beginning part of something |
| Synonyms: | anterior, bow, breast, brow, exterior, facade, face, facing, fore, forehead, head, lead, obverse, top, van, vanguard, foreground, forepart, front line, frontage, frontal, frontispiece, proscenium |
| Antonyms: | back, rear |
| Main Entry: | guide |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that or someone who leads |
| Synonyms: | adviser, attendant, captain, chaperon, cicerone, conductor, convoy, counselor, criterion, design, director, docent, escort, example, exemplar, genie, genius, guru, ideal, inspiration, lead, leader, mentor, model, monitor, paradigm, pattern, pilot, pioneer, scout, standard, superintendent, teacher, usher, vanguard, controller, exhibitor, guiding spirit, lodestar, pathfinder, rudder |
| Main Entry: | lead |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first place, supremacy |
| Synonyms: | advance, advantage, ahead, bulge, cutting edge*, direction, edge, example, facade, guidance, head, heavy, leadership, margin, model, over, pilot, point, precedence, primacy, principal, priority, protagonist, spark, star, start, top, vanguard, front rank, title role, top spot |
| Antonyms: | last |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | precursor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that indicates outcome or event beforehand |
| Synonyms: | forerunner, harbinger, herald, messenger, usher, vanguard, outrider |
| Main Entry: | head |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | front, beginning |
| Synonyms: | commencement, fore, forefront, fountainhead, origin, rise, source, start, van, vanguard, first place |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, ending, finish |
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